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#1

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

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#2

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

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#3

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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#4

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

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#5

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

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#6

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

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#7

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#8

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

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#9

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

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#10

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

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#11

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

tags: relationships

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#12

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

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#13

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

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#14

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

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#15

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

tags: stories-writing

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#16

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

tags: books, inventions

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#17

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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#18

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

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#19

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

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#20

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

tags: novels, short-stories, writing

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#21

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

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#22

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#23

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#24

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

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#25

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

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#26

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

tags: inspirational

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#27

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
― Arthur Miller

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#28

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

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#29

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

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#30

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

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